DECATUR, Ga. -- Robert Leonard is still completing the house he's built in the woods near downtown Decatur. "I wanted something sexy, but practical," Leonard says.

Leonard says he built the house for his girls: A flock of twenty hens. They will live in what may be the most hifalutin' chicken coop in metro Atlanta.

"We called it quits on the stain glass window," Leonard jokes as he shows off the the porch, deck and egg-laying areas, accessible via an outdoor latch.

Leonard and the twenty residents of his Chicken McMansion will be a featured stop on a tour of Atlanta urban chicken coops that will take place in early October.

Anne-Marie Anderson is a tour organizer, a woman whose Decatur back yard chicken coop is a step down from Leonard's -- despite its plant-growing green roof, rain barrels and way more space than her chickens need.

"On a scale of one to ten, this one is about a seven," Anderson says, gesturing toward the upscale coop in her sloping back yard. "You can tell when a chicken is happy. They strut and they look happy and they cluck."

And a happy chicken seems to beget a happy chicken owner and happy neighbors. Complaints from neighbors, Anderson says, are nonexistent.